B4506 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 9 June 2008 at 09:00 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the B4506 in Central Bedfordshire at 09:00 on Monday 9 June 2008. The 51-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Jun 2008
- Monday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.85291, longitude -0.55371, in the LU6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008400D01764
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4506
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 122 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 May 2005.
Slight
Daihatsu Charade crash on the B4506 in Central Bedfordshire, 11 May 2005
122 m awayRef 200540D013440
Serious
Mini Cooper crash on the B4506 in Central Bedfordshire, 2 September 2020
128 m awayRef 2020400987794
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the B4506 in Central Bedfordshire, 14 January 2014
134 m awayRef 2014404DA0060
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the B4506 in Central Bedfordshire, 2 May 2008
139 m awayRef 2008400D01354
Serious
Scania crash on the B4056 in Central Bedfordshire, 27 August 1996
140 m awayRef 19964000D0911
Fatal
Ford Orion crash on the B4506 in Central Bedfordshire, 25 January 1990
178 m awayRef 19904000D0163
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2008400D01764 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Central Bedfordshire road accident statistics for 2008.